[f. BOOT sb.3 + -LESS.] Without boots.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XVIII. 11. One … Barfote on an asse bakke botelees cam pryk[y]e, Wyth-oute spores other spere.
[1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., III. i. 66. Thrice … haue I hent him Bootlesse home…. Hotsp. Home without Bootes, And in foule Weather too, How scapes he Agues in the Deuils name?]
1880. E. Ingersoll, in Harper’s Mag., LX. 676. Hatless, bootless, and trouserless through a year’s campaigning on the plains and in the mountains.
